I, CHRISTINE
TODD WHITMAN, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue of
the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes
of this State, do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:

1. November
24, 2000, the day following Thanksgiving, shall be granted as
a day off to employees who work in the Executive Departments of
State Government and who are paid from State funds or from federal
funds made available to the State, whose functions, in the opinion
of their appointing authority, permit such absence.

2. An alternate
day shall be granted to the aforementioned category of employees
whose functions, in the opinion of their appointing authority,
precludes such absence on November 24, 2000.

GIVEN,
under my hand and seal
this 16th day of November in the
Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand,
and of the Independence of the
United States, the Two Hundred
and Twenty-Fifth.